Max Keilson

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Max Keilson (born September 7, 1900 in Halle (Saale) ; † November 9, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German graphic artist and journalist . During the Weimar Republic he was responsible for the KPD's poster propaganda. He was one of the leading journalists in the Soviet occupation zone .

Max Gebhard / Keilson: Come to us. Antifascist action , poster cutout (1932)

Life

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Keilson first completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and then studied at the municipal and state arts and crafts school in Berlin. In 1924 he became a freelance graphic artist and writer. From 1919 he belonged to the USPD and from 1920 to the KPD . In 1926 he took over the management of the "Central Studio for Image Propaganda" of the KPD. In 1928 he was one of the founders of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists and became its managing director. He also taught at the “ Marxist Workers School ” (MASCH).

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Keilson was first arrested. He emigrated first to Prague and Paris and later to Moscow . During the Second World War he was a radio editor at the broadcaster “Free Germany” of the National Committee for Free Germany . In June 1945 he returned to Berlin . In 1946 he became editor-in-chief of the SED newspaper " Vorwärts " and 1st chairman of the Association of German Press in Berlin. In 1949 Keilson became head of the press department of the GDR Foreign Ministry . From 1950 he headed the USSR department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR .

Keilson was married to Grete Schnate since 1927 . His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

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SURNAME Keilson, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1953
Place of death Berlin